Ex parte Wiley’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Donahue v. County of Will (1881), In Re Spivey (1997)
27 state decisions — followed in 14 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Montgomery County v. Barber
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he [State] Constitution simply creates the office of [district attorney], defines the manner of election, and fixes the duration of the official term. Thus far, the office is beyond legislative control. The office may not be abolished . . . nor can the official term be enlarged or diminished. The whole matter of removal or suspension from office, the causes for which, and the mode in which it may be effected, not being expressed in the Constitution, is a proper subject of legislation. It is part of the sovereignty of the State, part of the law-making power, and is not either expressly or impliedly withheld from the general assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Spivey
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.